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UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD s. STIMPSON, 0 EorEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO Du oEEE TEMPLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

Loom-TEMPLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,742, dated November 20, 1883. Application filed April 21, was. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. STIMPSON,

of Hopedale, county of Vorcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Loom-Temples, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is .a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

In this my invention the temple-head is connected with a temple-head-carrying plate provided with a'vertical pin or foot, which is entered loosely within a socket made at the outer or free end of a horizontally-vibrating lever, having its fulcrum on a stud of a vertically-adj ustable bracket attached to a stand secured to the inner side of and made adjustable on the breast-beam, to thus adapt the temple to cloth of different widths. The templehead-carrying plate has suitable ears, to which is connected a tailpiece. which is extended backward through a guide-plate attached to the breast-beam.

Figure 1 represents, in top view a portion of the breast-beam of a loom with one of myiniproved temples attached thereto, the full and dotted lines showing it in its two extreme positions, and in this figure the guide for the tailpiece is shown in section. Fig. 2 is a view of Fig. 1, looking at it in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1, the lever being partially broken out to show the stand back of it; and Fig. 3 is a sectional detail on the dotted line 00 00, Fig. 1, the pin or foot of the temple-head-carrying plate being in elevation.

The slotted stand B, having a long slot, 2, is connected to the inner side of the breast-beam A by bolt or nut 3, which permits the bracket to be adjusted on the breast-beam in accord ance with the width of the fabric being woven. A part of this bracket B, at its end nearest the loom side, is projected upward to form a slotted guide, 1), (shown in section, Fig. 1, and full lines, Fig. 2,) to serve as a guide for the tailpiece O, fastened to the ears 8 of the templeheadcarrying plate D by a pin, AL. The guide I), at one side, has a hook or projection, 5, to be engaged by the catch or shoulder 6 of the tail-piece C when the temple-head E is to be held back, as in dotted lines. The tail-piece 0, near its outer end, has a block, 0 adjustably attached to it by a screw, 0 The block 0, when it strikes the guide I), as in full lines, Fig. 1, limits the forward movement of the temple-head.

. Theinner end of the stand B is offset, as at b", and is shown as provided with a rib, I), to enter a correspondinglyshaped groove in the bracket F, which latter is slotted at and attached to the portion 1) by a bolt or screw,

f The slot f permits the bracket F and its attached parts to be adjusted vertically to enable the temple-head to be correctly placed with relation to the height of the lay, and the rib b and groove prevent the bracket from be,- ing tipped over out of vertical bracket 1) carries a stud or pin, b", which serves as the fulcrum of the lever G, which lever is partially broken out in Fig. 2. a

The. outer end of le'ver G is bored or otherwise provided with a socket, (shown in section, Fig. 3,) to receive loosely the pin or foot d, ex-

' tended from the under side of the temple-headcarrying plate D, such connection enabling the latter to vibrate (more or less) horizontally about the pin (1 as a center as the lever G is moved backward by the blow of the lay and forward by the spring H, (shown coiled about the stud b*,) one end of the said spring being held by bracket F, while its other end bears against the lug g of the lever G.

The temple-head E, having a toothed roller, 6, is adjustably attached to the plate D by screws e. By pivoting the plate D, carrying the temple-head, as described, upon the lever G, and providing the ihclined tail-piece O, and extending the latter into and guiding it by the guide I), it is possible to maintain the temple-head and the axle of its roller 6 always in the same position or angle with relation to the reed, notwithstanding the varying positions of the temple under the action of the reed. The head E being carried by the arm or lever G, it is obvious that the roller 6, in engagement with the fabric, will act to stretch thefabric as the filling is being beat up, and the arm or lever G turns on its pivot. toward the breast-beam. The temple-head having been set on the carrier-plate D,with the roller 0 parallel with the reed, or at an angle thereto, (as is at times desired by some 1nannfacturers,) and the carrying-plate being pivoted, the tailpiece 0 in the guide I) will insure that the said position. The

head and roller shall always maintain the same relative position with relation to the reed under all positions of the lever G as it is moved backward and forward by the lay. The tem- 5 ple-head-carrying plate audtemple-head might be in one piece.

I claim v 1. The lever G, means to support it, the oscillating temple-head, and a tail-piece 01 pro IO jection, combined with a guide for the tailpiece, whereby the temple-head is permitted to oscillate on the said lever as the latter is moved toward and from the breast-beam, sub stantially as described.

F. J. DUTCHER, 11. D. BnNoRoFn 

